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Topic: Making Starter Culture (Read 1396 times)

It says to sterilize the milk, let the milk come back down to 76 degrees and then add the cultures. Ok. So far. It [the package] says to let the milk and cultures sit for 12-18 hours or something along those lines. Does this mean at 76 degrees? How would I go about keeping the milk at 76 degrees for that amount of time?

Aikage, I've only used homemade starter cultures and freeze dried Direct Vat Set (DVS) cultures that you sprinkle onto the milk.

I think you are asking about Prepared Culture or Mother Culture style starter cultures and suspect your directions mean maintain at 76F. I know fellow member Tea in Queensland uses this system so I'm hoping she can answer.

Assuming your house is colder that 76F, options to keeping warmer are a small "health" heat blanket, placing on top-back of fridge, placing in oven and leaving light on similar to making yogurt ( i suspect you'd need to keep the door open otherwise it will probably get warmer than 76F).